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The Uninvited Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

Through the award-winning author of In the Shadow of Blackbirds comes a sensational new novel-a masterfully crafted story of love, loss, and second chances. Set during the dread and panic of the Great Influenza of 1918, The Uninvited is certainly part gothic ghost-story, component psychological thriller, ideal for those who cherished The Thirteenth Story by Diane Setterfield or The Vanishing by Wendy Webb.

Twenty-five year outdated Ivy Rowan rises from her bed after being struck with the flu, and then uncover the world about The Uninvited continues to be torn apart in just a few short days.

But Ivy’s life-long gift-or curse-remains. For she sees the uninvited ones-ghosts of loved ones who appear to her, unasked, unwelcomed, for they generally herald impending loss of life. On that Oct night time in 1918 she sees the heart of her grandmother, rocking in her mother’s seat. An hour afterwards, she learns her younger brother and father have killed a German out of retaliation for the death of Ivy’s older sibling Billy in the Great War.

Horrified, she leaves home, to find the flu provides caused utter panic and the guidelines governing society have divided. Ivy is drawn into this new world of jazz, interest, and freedom, where people live for the day, because they could be stricken by nightfall. But simply because her ‘uninvited guests’ start to seem to her more often, she understands her life will be torn apart once more, but Ivy does not have any inkling from the other-worldly revelations going to unfold.

The Uninvited is an atmospheric, haunting, and absolutely compelling novel.